Japanese escort ship Kanawa

Career (Japan)
Name:	Kanawa
Builder:	Mitsui Shipbuilding, Tamano
Laid down:	15 November 1944
Launched:	20 January 1945
Commissioned:	15 March 1945
Fate:	Scrapped 1947
General characteristics
Displacement:	940 tons
Length:	78,8 meters
Beam:	9 meters
Draught:	3 meters
Propulsion:	diesels, 4200 bhp
Speed:	19,5 knots
Complement:	150
Armament:	3 x 120mm 6 x 25mm Type AA guns depth charges

Kanawa was an Ukuru-class escort ship ("Kaibokan") of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War.^[1] After the war Kanawa was used in repatriation service. She was then taken by the British and scrapped in 1947 at Singapore.

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